Grand Prix Rejects

Salamander

Would anyone with a subscription kindly summarize their main arguments? Not normally keen on Autosport's journalism but this time I'd appreciate a lot! You WHAT? I tell ya, if you buy a subscription then you could feed and clothe an Ataxia for at least one whole quarter of an hour. Don't delay, sub...

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peteroli34 wrote:- Only 2 American F1 champions both win their title at Monza which saw their main championship rivals killed in an accident

In both cases, their championship rival was their teammate.

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In defense of Brendon Hartley, his pace wasn't terribly far off of Gasly's, and he improved as the season went on - this against a driver Red Bull saw fit to promote to the main team. It wasn't the greatest season ever, but I think nominating him for Reject of the Year is a bit harsh. And since I'm ...

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It might be a bit of a dumb choice, but I want to say Marcus Ericsson , simply because as amazing as Charles Leclerc is, the fact that Ericsson was just about able to stay in the same postcode as him, and contribute a decent handful of points was one of the most surprisingly nice things about F1 thi...

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As the original DEC owner I feel like I should just point out Brendon Cassidy Jr originally retired to focus on running Cassidy Racing. Not that I want to stand in the way or anything, but whoever runs the RNG may (or may not) want to factor that in. Ah okay, makes sense and I will respect that The...

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As the original DEC owner I feel like I should just point out Brendon Cassidy Jr originally retired to focus on running Cassidy Racing. Not that I want to stand in the way or anything, but whoever runs the RNG may (or may not) want to factor that in.

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Scott McLaughlin for redeeming himself after his tremendous choke last year.

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AdrianBelmonte_ wrote:https://twitter.com/alex_albon/status/1067096428894400512

There you go, the first thai on the grid since Prince Bira

Too bad Toro Rosso's just gonna chew him up and spit him out like they've done with Hartley. Albon deserves better.

Salamander

Here's a massive 20/20 hindsight vision ponder - just the way you like it: I watched the Senna movie again at the weekend; how would he have fared in subsequent years if he'd stayed at McLaren for the rest of his presumably long career? It's worth pointing out that if Senna doesn't go to Williams, ...

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AdrianBelmonte_ wrote:Why nobody noticed THIS???

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/dele ... t/3206859/

Because we did in another thread...?

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Dutch Noble Purchases Theodore Prince Theodore Racing Team owner Teddy Yip has announced that his ownership of the team has been bought out less than 18 months since bringing back the historic team to the F1 grid. Despite a strong showing in the team's first season in its new guise in 2019, claimin...

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I'm still here.

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John Rafael wrote:I'm not returning to FIA ladder. #f*ckFIA

That seems... kind of rude?

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Congrats to Mick Schumacher on winning the Euro F3, but I wish people would stop hyping/favouring him because of his surname. Just let him be his own person and driver, getting on the hype train is dangerous enough, but to base the bulk of it on his surname is even worse. I don't think anyone here ...

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While I generally don't consider pre-F1 drivers when thinking about the greatest driver of all time, because it's hard enough for someone born in 1992 to form a worthwhile opinion on the likes of Fangio and Clark, I do find it pretty asinine when people insist "F1 only".

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Brad Keselowski - Led the army off the cliff.

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I'm absolutely thrilled to be joining such a prestigious driver academy as the Best In The World programme... I mean, Kay Lon is probably the best driver that there's ever been, so to be recognised by him is absolutely mind-blowing. My family - my real family - has put everything on the line to get...

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UgncreativeUsergname wrote:Great to see, I was worried a space would never open up for him. And it's just more exciting than another year of Ericsson....

Nothing will ever be more exciting than the Ericsson Era.

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Lauren Kendrick (GBR, born 24th February 2004), is ready to make her international racing debut in AR2.0. She has an impressive background of karting victories but has struggled to find the backing to enable her to make more than a few sporadic single-seater starts. As a result, her mother and step...

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I, for one, love the look of the new cars and can't see a single thing wrong with them. Genuinely.

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I'm generally leery of any xkoronate-run series, since the races tend to err on the side of being shitshows, but if you want to give it a go yourself and see if you can get it to make sense, I'd sign up for a non-canon series.

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East Londoner wrote:If I see any more members wanting Ericsson to be replaced, I may have to break out the banhammer.

Remember, this is GP Rejects ffs.

For the record I want Ericsson to return... just so everyone else can be infuriated by him inexplicably lapping within a couple tenths or so of Raikkonen.

Salamander

Am I missing something here? Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull, Renault and McLaren have two confirmed drivers each for next year. Raikkonen is confirmed at Sauber, Stroll is surely guaranteed a RPFI seat and Haas wouldn't drop Magnussen based on his performance this year. So that's 13 seats out of 20, l...

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Stewart-Haas Racing will employ number 41 for Daniel Ricciardo.

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When was the last time McLaren didn't have a 'name' driver? Arguably 2002/2003 when Raikkonen was still making a name for himself, and Coulthard was still never considered a top line driver. I'm not sure how highly regarded Hakkinen was at the start of 1994 either. Before then, their lead driver be...

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Silly jokes aside, Felix Rosenqvist is my bet for one of the Toro Rosso seats. Unless he signs for Ganassi and goes to America. But what I've heard he is still very much looking to get into F1 and Toro Rosso might be his best chance if only Dr. Marko would want him. Yeah, because that's worked out ...

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Alex Zanardi is my pick for IIDOTR.

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Autosport is reporting that there is the possibility of an Alonso return in 2020. Likely that in 2019, Alonso will complete the sportscar megaseason, and try to incorporate an IndyCar drive around his Toyota commitment. I would have thought that is unlikely though - I get the sense that, given that...

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Anyone remember that Scorpion Racing team that tried to buy up the remnants of HRT?

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The management of Timmy O'Toole would like for their client to be present at each test for Euromotor.

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1993DonningtonNo1Mk2 wrote:BTCC 2018 Round 13 at Croft - Jason Plato, qualified 2nd, finished 2nd, still complained even though he hadn't qualified so high all season and hadn't scored a point in 2018 prior to this race.

Sounds familiar...

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Later on in the race (C4 coverage) David Coulthard made a dig at American racing about how they'll put out a full course yellow for the slightest bit of debris on the track. I'd like to point out that the IndyCar race on the same day featured zero (0) yellow flags - though probably that was helped ...

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And once again, Daniel Melrose proves himself the most unsporting driver on the grid. We had this race won, and instead he decides to just block me, when he's a lap down, for lap after lap and completely ruin my race. It's just more proof that the team was right to fire him and that he belongs suck...

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I'd also toss a couple special mentions to Alex Albon and Sergio Sette Camara, who are thriving in F2, and Robert Wickens, who has been an absolute revelation this year in IndyCar.

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I think RBR made the right choice honestly. Disagree. Jean-Eric Vergne should have got the 2015 seat. I think JEV's probably wound up better off for having being dumped, to be honest. At this point I think Red Bull have actually tossed away more future World Championships (albeit non-F1 championshi...

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Come on, Santino Ferrucci is at least tangentially related to F1, as a Haas Junior driver racing in the designated F1 feeder series. It's not like that time a bunch of us voted for Scott McLaughlin, a man who has absolutely no relevance to F1 whatsoever.

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Que the paypayas, but I just don't get the hype behind Kvyat. He's quite liked on here and is a demi-god on the cesspool that is Reddit. I think RBR made the right choice honestly. I completely agree - if you ever find the love for Kvyat unbearable, just point out that Max Verstappen won the first ...

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Spectoremg wrote:I wonder how much machinery Kvyat smashed up compared to the Dutch golden child?

I dunno, but I can tell you who's won infinitely more GPs.

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Simtek wrote:So, the race is tomorrow.

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to the Iowa Corn 300. Iowa's put on some great shows in recent years - I just hope that now that Ryan Hunter-Reay is in the form of his life, that he doesn't walk away with it on what is probably his best track.

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Apologies if I'm signing up out of turn here.

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